About Allan G. Johnson

Allan Johnson has been writing for most of his life, beginning with poetry and short fiction through his college years and then mostly nonfiction for the thirty years that he practiced sociology as a teacher and then public speaker on issues of social justice. He returned to his first love as a writer—the power of story, as fiction and memoir—following publication of The Gender Knot.

Signed copies of Allan Johnson’s books are available directly from the author. For information, send Allan an email by clicking here.

The First Thing and the Last Thing
The Gender Knot
Privilege, Power, and Difference
The Forest and the Trees
The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology
Foreign Editions

Allan Johnson: Our culture rarely focuses on the connection between men and violence. Quite simply because men won’t like it if you do. We are a nation tiptoeing around men’s anger, men’s ridicule, men’s potential to withhold resources (such as funding for battered women’s shelters and sexual assault programs)

LGBT Rights

Irene Monroe: Long before June officially became Gay Pride Month, and October “Coming Out Month” for the LGBTQ community, Halloween was unofficially our yearly celebrated “holiday,” dating as far back at the 1970s when it was a massive annual street party in San Francisco’s Castro district.

The Middle East

Richard Greeman: Anti-government demonstrations spread across Morocco after social media spread the story of Mousine Fikri, a fishmonger crushed to death inside a garbage truck as he tried to block the destruction of a truckload of his fish confiscated by police.